We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something…Stephen Hawking
“However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at. It matters that you don't just give up.”
“However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at. It matters that you don't just give up.”
— STEPHEN HAWKING
Theoretical physicist and cosmologist · 1942 – 2018
Stephen Hawking was an English theoretical physicist and cosmologist who predicted that black holes emit radiation, now called Hawking radiation. Diagnosed with motor neurone disease at 21 and given a few years to live, he spent over five decades in a wheelchair communicating through a speech synthesizer. His book A Brief History of Time (1988) sold more than 10 million copies and made him the world's most famous scientist.
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